Here is what 911 means for immigrants. They don't care about who did it so much as they care for what is done to them!!!! So Liz McLellan will leave the comfort of her computer seat and head for the rally to mingle with brown people. So I hope....but I ain't holding my breath. After all she still believes that finding the culprit is what Pacifica is about and the hell with brown people. Vote for her, she is as clean as a whistle. Fred From: "Steve Yip" Subject: Turning the Corner on the Post-9/11 Syndrome: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:13:10 -0400 Turning the Corner on the Post-9/11 Syndrome: Building Towards the 8th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality Commenting on this year’s mobilization for the 8th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, a spokesperson for the New York Committee said, “We need this year’s O22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality to help turn the corner on the post-9/11 syndrome; we need to firmly re-establish a broad, powerful and determined movement aimed at stopping police brutality, repression and the criminalization of our young people. And in addition, we need to build the bridges to the countless immigrant communities who have themselves come under siege two years since 9/11.” Last year’s October 22nd mobilization declared that “Police Brutality Did Not Die on 9/11!” Police brutality has gone wild in NYC and nationally –– under the cover that cops can do no wrong! There’s an open assault on peoples’ rights with the USA PATRIOT Act and the racial profiling and rounding up and jailing of Arab, South Asian and Muslim immigrants unseen since the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WW2. Despite all that we’ve seen renewed grassroots resistance to police brutality in Benton Harbor MI, the Cabrini Green projects in Chicago and in the Fort Greene projects in Brooklyn this year. The October 22nd Coalition envisions contingents to represent on that day: Women’s Contingents: Several police attacks were made on women this year by the NYPD –– from the killing of Alberta Spruill to the public beating and humiliation of 67 year old grandmother in Sunset Park--where her clothes were torn from her person, and the police stood around and laughed. Another reason is to backup for Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson who was killed by the NYPD, an activist mother who is legally blind, who was arrested and brutalized by the NYPD in the early morning for “trespassing” in her own home. "No Police State" Contingent: Those who were among the million anti-war protesters at the United Nations on February 15th that was attacked by police on horseback, or prevented from protesting at all –– should represent that day on behalf of the anti-war movement speaking out against brutal police assaults. Drop The Rock! Those who fought hard against the Rockefeller drug laws, but found the results a bit short because of double dealing by politicians need to represent this day too, and declare the struggle will continue til this barbaric law is removed from the books. Youth who are the main targets of police terror and brutality, this is YOUR day to represent, and to be positive role models like Mumia Abu-Jamal and to “serve the people.” In a final comment, the O22 spokesperson said, “2003 started on a certain tone with the NYPD killing four men in the first 48 hours of the year. This October 22nd we need to set another tone for the year to come, to make clear that we’ve had it, we don’’t want more Stolen Lives, and that the resistance needs to be firmly re-established.” This year's October 22nd National of Protest events will start at 4pm at City Hall Park, Manhattan. At 5:30 pm we will march to Union Square Park. For more information: 866-235-7814 (toll free). Our next meeting will be on October 11th at 3pm at Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Hall, Room 202. -- the system is waging war on the people... ...the people must wage war on the system! Steve Yip yipz@onebox.com - email Voice and Fax: (866) 841-9139 x2670 P.O. Box 380548, Brooklyn, New York 11238 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/xYTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/